[Foundation-l] Black market science

Thu Jul 7 05:57:52 UTC 2011

2011/7/6 David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com>

> On 6 July 2011 21:29, Arlen Beiler <arlenbee at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Once it is published, can't it just go to Wikisource? Or would it have to
> be
> > CC-By or something like that. If so, Wikisource would still be the best
> > suited for that, we would just have to put it in a journal namespace or
> > something along that line.
>

As I see it, there are some technical/organizational issues.
Wikisource accepts CC-BY-SA/CC-BY texts (and often OA articles use these
licenses), but does not change the text it self, only maybe in terms of
format and layout. It's a policy of the project to be absolutely coherent
with the source. This solves the issue of modifying the article itslef, and
having it in the exact words of the author.

But the current architecture is designed for digitization of paper books: as
I see it, we lack a simple, easy way to upload and show born digital
documents, as scientific articles would be.
I mean, we can always (and sometimes we do) ri-shape articles in wikitext
and put them in the ns0 of Wikisource,
or event upload the article on Commons and re-transcribe the text with the
pdf as a scan, but you see this is reinventing the wheel, everytime.
I still don't know how could we do, but I feel that we should have a more
automatic way to upload this kind of content (and then giving it our added
value, as wikilinks etc.) (for example, we could accept latex as it is...)

Aubrey